New answers tagged relative-clauses
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Why is "Audiences may contain many 'free riders', not making contributions." incorrect?
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He is very generous, making many contributions to charity.
the ing-clause, though in terminal position, after the main clause rather than the subject, does refer to either the subject or that ...
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Omit relative pronoun while connecting two relative clauses
You've got two different descriptions of the notation -- one for the coefficient values a and b, which are not variables of the function, and one for the range of x, which is a variable. They should ...
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